Driven by fundamental changes in the economics, scalability, flexibility, and speed of implementation for computing, the cloud has started a transformation that will take place over a decade or more, not months or years.

A commenter on my Forbes.com JargonSpy column this week (How to Fix Apps Marketplaces) made a creative suggestion about monitoring the use of applications that points in many interesting directions that have been on my mind. Brent Frei said in a comment to the post:

As part of his research into the cloud, Winston Damarillo has pointed out that it is harmful to your cloud architecture and an obstacle to success in the cloud if you make a distinction between the "private" and "public" cloud infrastructures.